Farwell Typed THIS Into His Police Phone After Sandra Birchmore Died

Matthew Farwell had just handed his personal phone to State Police detectives on February 9, 2021, when, the FBI says, he picked up the phone the Town of Stoughton paid for and asked it two questions. Can deleted iMessages be recovered by Cellebrite, the tool police use to pull data off a phone? Can consent be revoked in Massachusetts? He deleted both searches. Part 2 of the Sandra Birchmore story starts there and follows the state's investigation to the courtroom.

It had started within an hour of finding her, when prosecutors say local officers told the medical examiner's office there was no foul play. Troopers wrote no sign of a struggle. The doctor who ruled on her death never saw the room and didn't request scene photos until May. Two days in, detectives met Farwell in a school parking lot, didn't record it, and wrote him up as Matt. Prosecutors say he lied about when it started, how often he saw her, and when he left her apartment.

By late December 2021, state investigators had a man on video, a fractured bone in Sandra's throat, and nearly 33,000 messages between the two of them, and the charge their own paperwork said they were building toward was larceny. The theory was that Farwell had stolen from the Town of Stoughton by seeing Sandra while he was being paid to patrol. In September 2022 the Norfolk DA's office said its witness was dead and there was no prosecutable case.

Sandra's family hired Michael Baden. The FBI reopened the state's own file. The medical examiner changed the death certificate to undetermined in April 2026. Farwell has pleaded not guilty and faces mandatory life if convicted. A federal judge has admitted Sandra's journals and texts, and jury selection starts October 5, 2026.

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